I use flowers on my cards always, probably because I don’t get to use them that much in my scrapbooking. One thing I love to do is layer offset vellum flowers over paper flowers and secure them all in the middle with a brad. I did this in both the card and the page above – in the page above I did two different colored paper flowers and then a vellum one on top. The vellum takes the edge off and makes the colors blend in and look more subtle.

And I tried something new last night with my Cuttlebug – embossing right on my photos, and I love how it turned out.

Here’s a closeup – I wanted to incorporate those words into my page, but wasn’t sure how to do it. Embossing right on the pictures was the perfect solution. I love the “Explore” package of embossing folders, which include these three words (explore, imagine, and discover) and then a 4th of a little boy with a dinosaur. It’s the perfect little boy set.

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Love the daisy! I like how you double layered them. I have never heard of the embossing on the photo. I have never done embossing. I must be behind the times. It looks way cool, though! Thanks for the ideas.

You mention that you don’t get to use flowers a lot because you mostly scrapbook about your son. A fellow scrapbooker once told me that flowers and ribbon always make a scrapbook page, even if it is for a boy/man. I’ve been trying it and have found that indeed I can throw in a couple of flowers in a corner or some ribbon without making it any less masculine! It adds interest and color to the page. I suppose, however, if I went overboard with the flowers and ribbon, it’d be a different story!!!